Pricing
How Sume bills API work: plans and one wallet, what one run cost, estimates before you run, avatar video rates, failed jobs, and 402 errors.
Start with How Sume pricing works: plans, one wallet, published model rates
Restaurant menu audio: 60 dishes at 90 characters, MAI vs Sume cost
Reading a 60-dish menu aloud is 5,400 characters: about 8 cents on MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash, 12 cents on MAI-Voice-2.1 and 26 cents on Sume TTS 1.0.
Picture-book narration: 24 pages at 200 characters, MAI vs Sume cost
A 24-page picture book at 200 characters a page is 4,800 characters: 7 cents on MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash, 11 cents on MAI-Voice-2.1 and 23 cents on Sume TTS.
Translated script length changes the TTS bill: count characters
Sume TTS bills each character at $0.0475 per 1,000, so a translation that runs 25 percent longer costs 25 percent more. Count characters before you speak.
H3 Max lip sync: why 5.1 seconds of audio is priced as 6 seconds
Sume prices H3 Max Lip Sync at ceil(duration_seconds) x the per-second rate: 5.0 s costs $0.50 at 768p, 5.1 s costs $0.60. Table of ceil steps and a trim tip.
Quiz audio: 100 questions at 140 characters, one job, sliced per line
A hundred 140-character quiz questions are 14,000 characters: $0.21 on MAI Flash, $0.31 on MAI-Voice-2.1 and $0.67 on Sume, which can slice one job by sentence.
Weekly 38-minute sermon transcripts: MAI Streaming vs Sume STT cost
A 38-minute sermon every week for a year is 1,976 audio minutes: about $17.78 on MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and $20.28 on Sume STT with the split job.
Monthly budget for 25 sales reps sending personalized avatar videos
25 reps x 20 clips a month at 20 seconds each, priced on Sume standard, plus and max, with one shared avatar and what changes if each rep has their own.
Daily weather bulletins for six regions: a month of TTS, MAI vs Sume
Six regional bulletins of 260 characters, every day for 30 days: 46,800 characters, $0.70 on MAI Flash, $1.03 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $2.22 on Sume TTS.
Forty 55-minute earnings calls transcribed: MAI Streaming vs Sume STT
Forty earnings calls of 55 minutes are 2,200 audio minutes: about $19.80 on MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and $22.40 on Sume STT including the split jobs.
Onboarding voice tips: 25 screens, 3 narrators, MAI vs Sume cost
Testing three narrators on 25 onboarding screens of 120 characters is 9,000 characters: 14 cents on MAI Flash, 20 cents on MAI-Voice-2.1, 43 cents on Sume.
School-year lecture capture: 150 hours of transcripts, MAI vs Sume
Five 50-minute classes a week for 36 weeks is 9,000 audio minutes: about $81.00 on MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and $91.80 on Sume STT with 900 jobs.
What one localized video costs on Sume: captions, voiceover, dub
Per language, a translated caption job is $0.20, a voiceover on a silent clip up to $0.13, a 60-second dub up to $0.17 and a nine-minute lesson dub up to $1.37.
Recipe video narration: 30 dishes a month on MAI Flash vs Sume
Eight steps at 220 characters is 1,760 characters a recipe. Thirty recipes a month cost $0.79 on MAI Flash, $1.16 on MAI-Voice-2.1 and $2.51 on Sume.
Daily two-hour radio show transcripts: a month on MAI vs Sume STT
A two-hour show every day for 30 days is 3,600 audio minutes: about $32.40 on MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and $36.30 on Sume STT with 12 chunks a day.
Twelve 45-minute user interviews transcribed: MAI Streaming vs Sume
Twelve 45-minute research interviews are 540 audio minutes: about $4.86 on MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming and $5.52 on Sume STT, with five jobs per interview.
Help center video library: 100 articles as 20-second avatar clips
Price a help center video for every article with one Sume avatar: 100 clips at 20 seconds on standard, plus and max, and a staged review before full spend.
Weekly 6,000-character guided meditation: MAI-Voice-2.1 vs Sume cost
A 6,000-character meditation script a week for a year: $6.86 on MAI-Voice-2.1, $4.68 on Flash, $14.82 on Sume TTS. Plus the 45-second and 1,200-second caps.
What a 30-second Short costs to finish: trim, captions, render
After generation, finishing a 30-second vertical clip with Sume costs $0.02 to trim, $0.20 to caption and $0.10 to render: $0.32, with probe and plan free.
One TTS job with sentence segments, or one job per sentence?
Sume bills each TTS job rounded up to a cent. A 1,350-character script costs 7 cents as one job and 12 cents as twelve; segments give you sentences for 7.
How much is a 90-second AI voiceover: MAI-Voice-2.1 vs Sume TTS
A 90-second read is about 1,350 characters: $0.0203 on MAI-Voice-2.1-Flash, $0.0297 on Standard, and 7 cents billed on Sume TTS.
Black Friday hook tests: 20 ten-second variants on seven Sume rates
What 20 ten-second Black Friday ad variants cost on Wan 3.0, Gemini Omni Flash 1.1 and MiniMax H3 Max at Sume's per-second rates, from $12.50 to $50.00.
360p drafts before a 1080p final: when Omni drafting pays off
A 10 s Omni 360p draft costs $0.38 and a 1080p take $1.88. From the second attempt on, drafting first is cheaper. Break-even table on Sume, read 2026-10-05.
Omni draft-then-final monthly budget: 40 clips, 3 drafts each
A 40-clip month of 8 s Omni spots: three 360p drafts per clip plus a 1080p final is $96 on Sume, against $240 if every attempt runs at 1080p. Table inside.
Monthly budget for 30-second Wan 3.0 clips: 4, 12 or 30 a month
Four 30 second Wan 3.0 clips a month cost $15 at 720p on Sume, twelve cost $45 and thirty cost $112.50. Tables for 480p and 1080p, plus a draft-and-final plan.
Ideogram 4.5 edits per month: what 50, 200 and 1,000 a day cost
Monthly Ideogram 4.5 edit bills on Sume at 50, 200 and 1,000 edits a day: $56.25 to $1,125 at low, $112.50 to $2,250 at medium, with a mixed-quality plan.
Nano Banana 2 edit chain cost on Sume: 1K, 2K and 4K per pass
A Nano Banana 2 edit costs $0.10 at 1K, $0.15 at 2K and $0.20 at 4K on Sume. Cost of 3-, 5- and 10-pass chains, and when to draft at 1K and finish at 4K.
Quote a 30-second AI video clip: Seedance 2.5 per clip and per minute
How to quote a 30-second Seedance 2.5 clip on Sume: price at 480p, 720p and 1080p, a per-minute equivalent, a retake allowance and the rounding rule.
Omni 4K costs twice 1080p per second on Sume: is it worth it?
On Sume, Omni 4K is $0.375 a second against $0.1875 at 1080p: exactly double. A 10 s clip is $3.75 versus $1.88. When the extra pixels pay for themselves.
Every MiniMax price on Sume: H3, H3 Max, lip sync, Recast
One table of the per-second prices Sume bills for MiniMax H3, H3 Max, H3 Max lip sync and H3 Max Recast at each tier, list x 1.25, with 10-second totals.
Budget for 12 UGC ad variants: draft on Mini, finish on Seedance 2.5
What 12 vertical UGC ad variants cost on Sume when you draft on seedance-2-mini at 480p and finish the winners on seedance-2.5 at 720p. Full arithmetic inside.
Per-hour streaming rate vs per-minute STT: how a short clip rounds
MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming is $0.54 per hour with no stated rounding. Sume bills ceil minutes of your duration hint: 45 s is 1 minute, 61 s is 2.
35-second Omni video on Sume: 10+10+10+5 s clips, cost at 720p
A 35-second Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash cut is four Sume jobs (10, 10, 10, 5 s) plus one timeline render. The 720p total, with the 360p draft pass priced separately.
Two 3-second clips or one 6-second clip: the rounding gap on Sume
Splitting a 6-second Omni 360p clip into two 3-second jobs costs $0.24 instead of $0.23, because each job rounds up to the cent. When it matters.
Seedance 2.5 API pricing: ByteDance lists none, Sume reserves by size
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 page states no price and says the API is coming via BytePlus ModelArk. On Sume, 10 s costs about $5.78 at 720p and $14.22 at 1080p.
What finishing a Seedance 2.5 clip costs: trim, detach, compose, join
The edit steps around an AI clip are cheap. Public rates for video trim, audio detach, filter, compose, timeline audio and Timeline render on Sume.
A misspelled Ideogram 4.5 edit still bills: budget for retries
On Sume a completed image edit is billed in full even if the text came back wrong. Only failed or cancelled jobs are free. How to budget retries.
Music Router: does pinning lyria-3-pro cost more than music-auto?
On Sume's Music Router every routable id, sume/music-auto, lyria-3.5 and lyria-3-pro, charges the same fixed Music price per generation. What pinning changes.
Free AI video generator: what the Sume Free plan includes
The Sume Free plan is for trying image generation. Video is paid per clip from the wallet; the cheapest clips cost about 12 to 13 cents.
Why your Sume balance dropped for a job that is still queued
Sume reserves the estimated cost when it accepts a job, not when it starts. Six queued 10-second Wan 720p jobs hold $7.50 at once. How to read it.
Does a Sume 402 insufficient_credits cost you? No, nothing ran
A 402 on submit means Sume could not reserve the estimate. No provider work started and nothing is captured. Three ways to shrink the request and retry.
STT duration_seconds omitted: Sume reserves one minute. What to send
When you leave duration_seconds out of a Sume transcribe request, one audio minute is reserved. Send the real length, up to 600 seconds, to size the hold.
Sume queue_full: is money held for the job that was rejected?
A 429 queue_full means the workspace has no accepted-job capacity left. Sume releases or refunds the reservation for the failed admission. How to confirm it.
Gemini Omni Flash pricing: Google quotes 720p; Sume lists four rows
Google's Gemini API pricing page gives Omni Flash video as $17.50 per 1M tokens, about $0.10 a second at 720p. Sume lists 360p, 720p, 1080p and 4K rows.
Price before you pay: four places Sume shows a cost before a job runs
Video models list pricing_skus, Timeline plan returns an estimate, video-filter check is free, and the usage ledger shows the reserve. Where to look and when.
Sume org workspaces run 10 generations at once; Free runs 1
Concurrency on Sume is plan-based: Free 1, Pro 4, Startup 8, Scale 20, with a floor of 10 for org workspaces. Prepaid top-ups do not raise it.
Sume balance is in dollars: the credits field is rounded cents
GET /v1/balance returns USD. Compatibility fields show rounded cents as credits, so a $0.0375 Omni 360p second disappears. Budget from micros instead.
Free plan vs paid wallet for AI video: what each one buys on Sume
On Sume the plan sets how many video jobs run at once and your request rates; the wallet pays for each clip. A top-up never raises concurrency.
AI video generator API pricing: where to read what a Sume clip costs
Three places show Sume video prices: the catalog before you submit, the reservation at submit, and usage.cost after. What each number means and when to use it.